Legal Opinion

Palm v. Maine

District Court, D. Maine

Decided January 22, 2008No. Civil 07-102-B-HPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER AFFIRMING THE RECOMMENDED DECISIONS OF THE MAGISTRATE JUDGE

D. BROCK HORNBY, District Judge.

This lawsuit arises out of police conduct at the plaintiffs home in Fayette, Maine. The plaintiff was not present. According to the plaintiff, law enforcement personnel improperly surrounded the home while his wife and dogs were inside and demanded that his wife come out (apparently on the theory that she was armed and suicidal although the plaintiff maintains that they had no reasonable grounds for any such belief). Eventually the police shot many rounds into the home, causing damage. Neither the…

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